Good evening. Everyone im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, we begin with the breaking news on the search. At this moment, search planes heading out to find any sign of flight 370, the bluefin 21 is back on the bottom of the ocean, making another desperate pass to locate flight 370. The bluefin has been hunting on the ocean floor for the past seven hours. It was at this moment last night we first learned the bluefin had aborted its mission and surfaced after spending only spending seven and a half hours under water. The water became too deep. Crews analyzed limited data. They found no sign of any plane debris. In a minute were going to talk to one of the men leading the search effort. First well begin with Michael Holmes out front in perth. Planes taking off right now. What else can you tell us . Reporter yeah, th. Yeah. That will be taking off about now. We still have the ships out there searching for surface debris, although angus houston, the search leader told us a couple of days ago
search, weather permitting. swells of about 2 meters out this today. it is a mammoth search at this pace of this bluefin 21. it could take up to two months to cover the search area. erin? two months. i m speechless. thank you very much, michael holmes reporting from perth. i want to bring in eric mcevoy of the joint forces headquarters with the royal new zealand air force, one of the chiefs in charge of the air search. good to talk to you again, commander. air search i know just getting under way. obviously, you know, we re told we re in the final days and hours of a visual search whether by plane or by plane. are you ready to make the call to call it off? no, that won t be our call. it will be a political call between australia and the malaysian authorities. what i can tell you today is there is another eight or nine missions planned. air crews will be going out again today for that visual search. and the crews will be focused on